Every single member of the @democrats.org in the Senate voted to confirm Rubio. Every. Single. One. They didn't have to; he would've been confirmed anyway. This was a conscious choice by BOTH parties.

Cancer is too good for these racist pieces of crap.

So he's in favor of Gen Z having to wait til they're in their 60s before owning a home. God, on top of being a bad president, he's just *such* a spoiled, out-of-touch brat begging for his daddy's attention.

I'm glad @sallyjenx.bsky.social doesn't need the approval of the thought police, or anyone with a functioning brain. Hey idiot: BEING AN OPINION WRITER DOES NOT MAKE ONE QUALIFIED TO LEAD A NEWS ORG. Weiss is a joke, and you prove your lack of any modicum of intelligence with this kind of bullshit.

Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

My Congressman perfectly sums up how @mattyglesias.bsky.social works in most of his punditry, and it's really sad. He doesn't know what he doesn't know – and doesn't care. He's gonna have an opinion on it whether or not he knows anything about it.

Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.

In a world without Section 230: 😩 Big Tech companies everyone hates would win. Giants like Meta and Google have armies of lawyers to navigate compliance 😩 Alternative platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon would likely shut down, along with Wikipedia, review sites, how-to resources, small forums, etc

Impact for Equity is thrilled to announce the appointment of seasoned leader and former U.S. Attorney Carter M. Stewart as our new Executive Director.

What *exactly* is @whipkclark.bsky.social's job as Minority Whip, anyway? Because it seems to me if she was any good at her job, those 3 Dems wouldn't have crossed over, and this bill would've failed. Instead, 3 Dems showed themselves to be perfectly willing to throw LGBTQ+ people under the bus.

lol Kevin Warren is so *laughably* bad at this.

Welp, add Puka Nacua to the gigantic pieces of trash the NFL employs.

Literally any other president who usurped this much power from Congress would be impeached. Unfortunately, Mike Johnson is as spineless as a sponge.

so if you personally pay donald trump you get a fast track to a green card

We are monitoring, thinking, and praying.

Here's the context for you, Erika: Your husband was a trash person who didn't deserve to die by gun violence but who advocated for the very gun violence thar killed him. You are a trash person who is using her husband's popularity and murder to enrich herself and raise her political profile.

Rock music has been "dying" since the '70s (see Lester Bangs' entire life's work). I myself recall how the Strokes were "an outlier" and were going to "save rock 'n' roll" around 2001. Never mind that the Smashing Pumpkins had just finished one of the most lucrative tours in history the year before.

This is the kind of Democratic Party boosterism I can't stand (not to pick on Dave; there's plenty of them on here). Biden was a bad candidate in *2020*, and a major contributing factor to his win was the fact that he didn't have to have a very rigorous campaign schedule.

Reminder that Cubs star Matt Shaw is a white supremacist who hangs out with other white supremacists. Not a surprise Tom Ricketts employs him, but it sure says something bad about the media and country that he can do this but God forbid Colin Kaepernick protest racial violence peacefully.

We are living through a storm of uncertainty. Our values are being tested as never before. Through our commitments to pursuing housing and criminal legal system reform, we at Impact for Equity stand firm in our values, a bulwark of social justice against rising chaos and confusion.

This should be the *conservative* argument. The moderate position ought to be that the Sensational Six should be in prison for violating their oaths of office. The radical position...

Olivia Nuzzi was paid actual money for this.

My contribution to the Tarantino discourse is that I love "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" (less so "Vol. 2"), "Pulp Fiction" was revolutionary but flawed, "OUATIH" was well-acted, and Tarantino himself seems like an utter penis. I mean, he's a Gen X precursor to 4chan edgelords. Personally, I mean.

Biden did a lot of dumb shit, but appointing Jackson wasn't one of them. She's better than *anyone* Obama nominated.

This absolute moron. This absolute intellectual featherweight. It really is incredible how disproportionate Gorsuch's arrogance is to his intelligence.

Whatever happens in Illinois, there is no way in hell I'm backing @congressmanraja.bsky.social for Senate. The guy is practically as corporate sponsored as an NFL stadium, and he's taking money from Trump's right-wing buddies. He's a wolf in sheep's clothing, and he needs to be stopped.

Gonna see all six of the "Constitutional Originalists" contort themselves like a Stretch Armstrong doll to explain why the Constitution doesn't say what it literally spells out in plain text.

Somewhere, @mattabbatacola.bsky.social takes a sip of his sparkling water and sighs. "Sometimes, the world is a wonderful place," he muses.

I can't believe I'm reskeeting Bill Kristol, of all people, but he's 100% right on this. I'll go a step further: everyone involved, from Hegseth to the Admirals to the grunts who carried it out, should be prosecuted for war crimes AND murder.

Don't even care how the fan base feels about this song; "Petrichor" is a masterpiece.

Who has made this 🤣

Someone make sure @daralind.bsky.social is remembering to breathe.

Just reminding everyone that Graham Planter is not a good candidate to go after fascist fake-moderate Susan Collins. I don't in any way want someone who will be in their 80s at the end of their first term; but I'd prefer her to a guy who *at best* is so stupid he kept a Nazi tattoo for *years.*

The thing to understand about "age verification" laws is that they are not just for kids The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE. This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE

Another shocker: rapists support rape. No one in the legacy media seems willing to say it 'cause they're all too chickenshit, but Donald Trump is a rapist. A civil court said so. Why we're playing games with language for this hollow husk of a man, I'll never understand.

Pete Hegseth is evil. Just absolutely, completely evil. What he is doing in the Caribbean is evil. What he is *ordering* to happen is evil. And every single servicemember, down to the lowest noncom, who goes along with this is evil, too. You get told to do this, you resign. End of story.

THIS. I have never understood the "It's-popular-therefore-it's-good" people. I LOVE discovering new music. If it weren't for @jimderogatis.bsky.social, I wouldn't have found the Flaming Lips, for example. His championing them in the '90s started a love affair for me that lasted through "Embryonic."

Therrrrrre's the Hillary Clinton I remember. Centrist, safe, genocide-endorsing, and utterly unable to read the (larger) room. Amazing how Bill can go to Michigan and lecture Palestinians and other Muslims about voting, yet anyone who sees a dead kid is seeing something "totally made up?"

This might be my favorite Simpsons gag of all time. They do a feint towards calling her "Crabapple" while making it funnier by having Homer say an utterly normcore name. Just absolutely brilliant writing. youtu.be/Kgy2CShrzOU?...

Apparently both allowing sexual assault AND being utterly mediocre at your job are qualifications for @michiganstateu.bsky.social coaches.

This is so important. Being an addict doesn't make you evil or bad or even weak; it means your brain works differently when it comes to intoxication. RFK isn't a bad person because he's an addict. That's the very *least* of the problems I have with him. I'm much more worried about his sociopathy.

Re: Families in cities, as usual my discourse stops at the Chicago city limits, but I was curious how the housing stock had changed in the last ten years. Here's 2015 and 2025 via CMAP. 3+ bed units went from 463k to 499k

I'd be interested to actually see the study Stancil is excerpting here, particularly the geographic locations of respondents, because I don't think the numbers say what he thinks they do. Seems to me it's explained by the rise of suburbs/exurbs and the unaffordability of big cities.

Collins didn't *just* become a fascist or do it to cower to Trump. She was *always* a full-on, if mealy-mouthed, fascist who believed all the same things the fascists do but didn't have the courage to admit it. She's admitting it now. Mainers, you can't elect her OR Planter. You need more options.

Every new Jo Walton novel is An Event that reminds me of times I stayed up all night for a book or movie release when I was more able to stay up for such things. I don't read a *lot* of contemporary fiction – my expertise ends around 1970 – but Walton is the most addictive writer I have ever read.

I really hope that Elon Musk eventually dies in an immense, simply unbearable amount of pain caused by his body eating itself. He is the purest example of complete and utter evil that we have in modern times. He checks all the boxes short of physically murdering people. He is likely responsible

i don’t think it is appreciated enough how much roberts has right-wing legal theoried himself into being a dumbass

We can't wait for another year-plus. @durbin.senate.gov has got to resign. This guy folds easier than... a thing that folds very easily. We can't wait for Raja or Stratton or whoever. We need to pressure Durbin to resign now.

It’s truly tragic how many of these US war criminals like Cheney never face justice and die in their peacefully in their homes in their 80s and 90s. I want to be happy he is dead but I am not. The million people he killed didnt get the luxury to die how he did.